August 08, 2007

Knock, knock, who's there?

Leigh Dodd's presentation to the Society for Scholarly Publishing in San Francisco back in June provides a nice sketch overview of the federated access management problem space, ending with a brief, two-slide, summary of Shibboleth vs. OpenID as possible solutions. It would be nice to have seen more discussion around these final two slides, particularly touching on the 'trust' issues... but that would have probably made for a different, and rather more detailed, presentation!

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» Shibboleth and Libraries; Web 2.0 and Identity Management from JISC Access Management Team Blog Andy Powell links to a presentation by Leigh Dodd at the Society for Scholarly Publishing on federated access. After years of struggling to explain federated access management, I realise that the missing component was South Park characters! My only co... [Read More]